Comments on: Linux Tips: get the list of subdirectories with their owner & permissions and full paths

By: Ash

Ash — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 09:56:22 +0000

Peter Manis: but this way you will start 100 times more processes, one chown for each directory. If there is more directories, one chown per 100 of them is better solution. Only works if the command can handle more arguments of course (chown does).

By: Peter Manis

Peter Manis — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 07:48:39 +0000

prasana: You can do the chown inside of find

find /var -mount -type f ! -user root -exec chown root:root {} \;

By: find . ! -type d -ls at LinuxPlanet Blogs

find . ! -type d -ls at LinuxPlanet Blogs — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 19:30:27 +0000

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By: prasana Iyengar

prasana Iyengar — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:17:14 +0000

1. xargs is a good way to chunk especially when the return set is large [which tends to be the case for find]
2. -mount to keep within a filesystem.

as an example,
find /var -mount ! -user root -o ! -group root | xargs -n 100 chown root:root

(came here for arping -S -B ) and stayed to comment happy new year

By: Maher Saif

Maher Saif — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:18:55 +0000

I think this will help
tree -dfup /var | grep -v root

By: - Marius -

- Marius - — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 13:29:07 +0000

@chlovechek: you are correct. This is a much better solution! thanks for your comment.

Cheers,
- Marius -

By: chlovechek

chlovechek — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 13:01:30 +0000

This will also filter out directories having ‘root’ in their name…

Maybe cleaner solution would be:
find /var ! -user root -type d -ls